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Top 25 Pete Hamill Quotes (2025 Update)

Pete Hamill Quote: “The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, and above all, the elusive promises of friendship and love.”

1. “The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, and above all, the elusive promises of friendship and love.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.”

2. “Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “Don’t tell me about the world. Not today. It’s springtime and they’re knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.”

3. “Don’t tell me about the world. Not today. It’s springtime and they’re knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.”

4. “There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.”

5. “For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.”

6. “I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.”

7. “Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.”

8. “He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.”

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Pete Hamill Quote: “In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.”

9. “In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that’s why there are so many lies.”

10. “Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that’s why there are so many lies.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else’s nostalgia.”

11. “The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else’s nostalgia.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore. To leave myself behind, along with the mechanics, and disappear into the lives of my characters.”

12. “The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore. To leave myself behind, along with the mechanics, and disappear into the lives of my characters.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “Maybe words, like potions, were also capable of magic.”

13. “Maybe words, like potions, were also capable of magic.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “He looked at her for a long moment, as if remembering unfinished conversations, and then went back to place some damp, slow-burning turf on the fire.”

14. “He looked at her for a long moment, as if remembering unfinished conversations, and then went back to place some damp, slow-burning turf on the fire.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.”

15. “The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.”

16. “This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.”

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Pete Hamill Quote: “More than anything, it’s a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.”

17. “More than anything, it’s a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.”

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Pete Hamill Quote: “My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: ‘the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.’”

18. “My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: ‘the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.’”

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Pete Hamill Quote: “The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a good murder; they pray that assassinations, wars, catastrophes break on their editions.”

19. “The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a good murder; they pray that assassinations, wars, catastrophes break on their editions.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “In 1955, there were 150,000 New Yorkers on welfare; in 1995, there were 1.3 million.”

20. “In 1955, there were 150,000 New Yorkers on welfare; in 1995, there were 1.3 million.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson about how young writers must read like predators. And she says that all of us, not just writers, must read like predators. For books are food, she said, for every single one of us.”

21. “She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson about how young writers must read like predators. And she says that all of us, not just writers, must read like predators. For books are food, she said, for every single one of us.”

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Pete Hamill Quote: “There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.”

22. “There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.”

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Pete Hamill Quote: “That was it. To be a rolling stone. In the romantic places of the earth. Ready for a fight, a frolic, or a feed. And since I was Irish, since I was Billy Hamill’s son, since I was from Brooklyn: a drink too.”

23. “That was it. To be a rolling stone. In the romantic places of the earth. Ready for a fight, a frolic, or a feed. And since I was Irish, since I was Billy Hamill’s son, since I was from Brooklyn: a drink too.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.”

24. “Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read.”

25. “Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read.”

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Pete Hamill Quote: “The boy admonished himself for wanting everything to be a story. And now realized that some journeys were not stories. On some journeys, nothing really happened. You just kept taking steps.”

26. “The boy admonished himself for wanting everything to be a story. And now realized that some journeys were not stories. On some journeys, nothing really happened. You just kept taking steps.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “It’s odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.”

27. “It’s odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “Quite simply, I love newspapers and the men and women who make them. Newspapers have given me a full, rich life. They have provided me with a ringside seat at some of the most extraordinary events in my time on the planet. They have been my university. They have helped feed, house and educate my children. I want them to go on and on and on.”

28. “Quite simply, I love newspapers and the men and women who make them. Newspapers have given me a full, rich life. They have provided me with a ringside seat at some of the most extraordinary events in my time on the planet. They have been my university. They have helped feed, house and educate my children. I want them to go on and on and on.”

— Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill Quote: “I discovered very early that my instrument wasn’t my voice,” he said to me once. “It was the microphone.”

29. “I discovered very early that my instrument wasn’t my voice,” he said to me once. “It was the microphone.”

— Pete Hamill

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